Re: Is Lilypond’s G-Clef too straight?

[Xavier Scheuer]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 12:06, <lilypond@petzel.at> wrote:
>
> Lilypond has a very characteristic G-Clef. I’ve only seen a handful of
> Bärenreiter scores with a similar clef.
>
> I personally find the Lilypond-Clef beautiful, but quite some people find it a
> bit too characteristic. I think part of this could come from the Clef being
> very straight. In most editions the G-Clef has a slant forward, so that the
> right edge is less leaning backward.
>
> So I’ve simply tried to rotate the clef a bit, and I’ve found that with just a
> slight rotation the clef looks much more like a „standard” G-clef.
>
> So what do you think about this? Could it be that the G-clef of Feta is just
> slightly too straight?

Hello Valentin,

This reminds me of https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1752

See also the discussion at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-07/msg00183.html

Cheers,

Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>